The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 2

] A hundred years ago commerce and industry was chaotxc and anarchxstlc.\ There was no system, on orgamzatlon, no co-operation. - Fierce competltxve wars raged among business concerns.. All pammpants su.fiered financm.l losees as a result ot such wars. Fmally business began to organize. Then the more efficiently organized sur- vived in the conflicts. ' The unorganized went down in defeat, just as unorganized -mobs go down in.defeat wher in conflict with the organized armies. g = ' Swiftly organization grew, progressed and Weveloped. As-a result today we- ' have the great combinations and aggregations of capital, the powerful trusts and syndicates and therefore efficiency and effectiveness.- Also we have large financial returns, - Humanity learned that it was profitable to otgamze and form eombma tions and trusts—profitable to them. , As a result of concentrated manufacture and dxstnbutum many millions of people were eliminated from the ownership of the'tools of productmn and reduced to hirelings. They were obliged to seek employment from those men who had_had the good sense and foresight to organize. These we call wage workers and they include the skilled and the unskilled workers. Because of their unorganized eondition fierce competmon prevailed among the wage workers and because of the weakness and mefiectxveness of mob action 'wages were reduced to the minimum, % Then the idea of organization began to percolate the minds of the wage workers. Crafts and fraternities sprang up. Labor unions. were started. § : ; Today there are enormons orgamzatxons of 1abonng people The factory workers, . the mine wrkers and the transportation workers are examples. These orgamzatxons are maintained at enormeus expenses; costing the individual memhbers anywhere from $10 per year up to $50 per year. They have found that it pays them in dollars and cents to maintain such’ organizations. A ‘notable example of the effectiveness. of such organization is seen in the tremendous power brought to bear upon the - . -what-otherymen are doing. He has become ‘a business man and ha -spread. Orgamzatmn is the resulf.. R \ been declared and accepted by many, ‘as’ lmpossxble—the successful orgamzahon of famers. There are other’ factors, of eoursé;’ The public press isone.: Many thous- ands of farmers’ xww-a—dsys ‘take daily papers, ‘weekly papers: and monthly maga- zines; when & few years ago this was the exception. Now it is the rule. This has acquainted the farmer with the ways of the big world. It has increased his knowledge and therefore his intelligence. He knows what is going on around him: He reads ome to look ypon farmmg as a business. 'He is: begmmng to apply the rules -of business to farm- ing. He sees everything about him organized: Everythmg he sells he sells. to an orgamzatxon. Everythmg he buys he buys from an orgamutmu. This makes an impression upon him. - He gets-in his car, yuns over to his neighbor ‘and spends a couple of hours talking over these things. They exchange ideas. Theses 1deas So org'amzafion has evolved np to the pomt where forty thousan i £armers in one state did organize in less than two years.™ They set out to accomph h,a certain th.mg—to seize the powers “of political government in that state—the state of North Dakota. And therefore at last the questlon has been settled that farmers can organ- ize. They -have organized. No. one can successfully deny that any more They orgamzed and they stuck till they accomphshed then‘ first ob;echve. ¢ jmnbo Speelal Wild Oats Separator o Takes wild oats from tame oats. That is what it hm‘d!furupefltliy. imt mntnkeltoutothnfleyorwhatuw s 2 that yo:os;nnot. afford to seed oats :xtom-e‘nd tomvenzmntatthclow" * government of the United States by the railroad brotherhoods in the recent confixct R between the railroads and the employes. * Every one knows that if the trainmen ‘had not been organized their efforts to obtam shorter hours of employment Won¥d~ have . been met with a sneer. - et UNORGANIZED RA[LROAD MEN DO NOT é i . SHARE IN: BENEEIT OF lflGHER WAGES «<> A AN IR * As an example of the efiectlveness of organization 1t is mte'restmg to note ‘the difference in the wages that organized railroad- men and lmorgamzed railroad men get. In the organized branches the men get-three to five times as much #s the section’ men. The section men do a necessary work and a Work that reqmres some: skx'll but ; they. are unorgamzed v Fo In the matter of orgamzatmn agnculture lags the furthest behind. Agnculture has been the hardest of all industries to organize. . This is not because: farmers are less intelligent or realize any less the fullness of their exploitation. - It-is due to th( l'ughly individualized condtion of the farmers They are the most notable examples of individualisth. Factory workérs lxw close togethet and come in personal contaet more often than farmers. W 4 “The farmer lives alone on his farm For days he wm seeno ‘one hut the members ;i of his own family and a few ne:glxbors If he 'goes to town or to a sale, to time and occupy his mind. In his business tranactions he is usually under the mflu— ence of a class of nien who do not want him to erganize and who on the contra.ry ; seek by all subterfuge to minimize-his grievances. ; But. Time is a worker of wonders. Modern convemences have—revoluhomzed the world. Rapid means of transportahon has eliminated distance. - In this respeet the automobile is” a very important factor. Because of it the farmer is brought‘ R into closer proximity to the towns and also te-his nelghbors. A farmer living ten - miles from town and havmg anar is equal to a person living within the city limits. (-This helps to, account fmr the accomplishment of a thing.. that has heretofore. ; For years cattle and sheep to packing houses have gane into the pockets of “big business.” - For instance—last’ 3 year & Company '$2,463,732 net. The;e figures .are quoted from " financial journal of the country: !ugher ‘than. ‘for 1915. 25 per cent on the $75, 000,000 capital,” Armour & been ofiually announced by the presndent of flle company. . To kee;;l 7 ;ompmy Wi ; industry that 3 freight, but alse in wes X Shry also pay big profitstol(ortb otmpéople. The shares “ . orders are taken for steck payable 10 per eent in cash, 15 of Marech, 1917%, 26 pet eent the first of June, 1917, and 50 next October.- one purchaser ean: plix‘nited, i wxlfl:e over five hzmdM stockho!dersnr b managed{i‘g p&at?ntd acom the plant. We have prepared s C o ;. which we want to e " or a picnic there are other things, such as business and social affairs to take %;) lus e big paekers have been makmg money ofl‘ oi Noith Dakota hve stoek. We pny the to the eastern markets and pay the freight both ‘on eur eatife’ We ean have this and sell their own finished meat: products and reap the profits themselves— and the profits are bxg pmfi Armour & Company . earned. 511,000 oox:et fy‘igt & Company su;os'r,soo net Mnms 5 issue of Armour & Company Stack Pays Dwzdemi of 400 Per Cent for 191@ Akamqnotmgfromthe“lnvestment News”cfthesamezssue ‘Esmusfwzhemmtywshmmtpukmghme)mwmsewrymh Armunr&Compamy?’s repo 1tmstated wxflshawappronmately 7swmmdmmmmmmsm%mmy,nm1 fi“ Companyp_ropom, vanenly dividend of §80,000, . v Xmas Sale of Planos andPlayers - "GETTS PIANO HOUSE -113-115 Broadway - FARGO, N. D. : Write._‘ for eatalogneand payment,planj League Orgamzers Wanted Ifyouwant to work for theLeague andcanfurmshateam and coveted rig here is yom . You can earn & goed winter salary- ‘Lelping build this great farmers’ orgamzahop. “~If you develop into - - nish a ear and 'you can eontinue through the summer. 'This op . tunity is open toIeaguemembetsmlfinn&ota,South Montana and North Dakota. Write at once for particulars.” ; section; township and range, and five referenees. Address, % ’Farmers Nonparhsan Imgue Fargo, N D. e & ppneeiorthe.meuttfiatwe eat. Wen!n anrho's The prvfitsl going down' and meat coming great. mdef Cnmpanysz.sz EnetSuhba'ge ,to@c!srea ~shas.£ 0,000 ¢ 400 per a goed organizer and want steady employment the Teague will fur- I